Internet Profit System

Archive for May, 2008

You visited a few times and I would appreciate your thoughts on this post, why not comment?

How to use MySpace to Generate Traffic

Social networks like MySpace are not, as is popularly thought, just for teenagers. There are many different types of group on MySpace covering all kinds of diverse subjects, and often populated by genuine fanatics who are prepared to spend money on their chosen hobby. Because MySpace is so large, the groups are large as well, so there is every opportunity for using the site commercially as long as you don’t make the obvious mistakes. The MySpace owners are fanatical about keeping marketing activity off the site, so you will need to act carefully and judiciously.

The first step is to set up your profile properly. Many profiles are unfinished, or look unprofessional, and many thousands of profiles are there for social purposes and dating. You will need to stand out, and stand apart from these. The first and most obvious consideration is to get it known exactly what you can offer potential customers in your field of expertise. Use your “About Me” profile to sell yourself as being extremely capable in your chosen field, without obvious obnoxious boasting. You want to create the image of an extremely talented, and conscientious, service provider.

Link from your profile to your major websites and blogs, and you will be in prime position to drive traffic from the MySpace network. You will then need to try and pick as many friends as you can, both to become potential customers, and to become possible affiliates or joint venture partners for whatever product or service you are offering. Interact with the community that you manage to build, and never do anything which is blatantly commercial, and especially never do anything which could be considered “spammy” and have your account deleted. If you use social networks patiently, and approach them in a genuinely helpful manner, you can pick up some very useful contacts.

You visited a few times and I would appreciate your thoughts on this post, why not comment?

Many people have found the Internet to be a great way to make a lot of money. They have discovered the power of leverage. Internet marketing allows you to reach a global audience. However, many more people have found Internet marketing to be a frustrating experience. They know that riches are there to be found, but they struggle to make even a modest income. In fact quite a number actually make a loss each month. The sales they make don’t compensate for the amount they spend on buying the latest e-books, purchasing private label rights or paying monthly membership fees.

One of the biggest mistakes is to think that you will get rich quickly from one technique, or one product. This can happen, but it is the exception rather than the rule. Having a goal of reaching $100,000 or more a year is a reasonable goal. However, having a goal of reaching $100,000 in one step is not as reasonable. Fortunately, there is another way to use the power of leverage. A large income does not have to come from one source. Indeed, it is probably a lot easier to generate using multiple sources of smaller amounts.

For example, there are many ways to generate $5 a day on the Internet. This may not seem very significant, but over the course of the year this would generate $1825. Again, this may not seem very exciting. However, if you were to put in place 100 similar sources you would now be earning $500 a day. This equates to a yearly income of $182,500.

Of course, this strategy could lead to another common mistake. Many new (and not so new), Internet marketers lack focus and consistency. They follow a range of gurus and experiment with a wide variety of techniques in the search for the one elusive method that might allow them to quit their day job. Unfortunately, if you work on 10 different jobs at the same time, it can lead to them receiving only 10% of the effort each. An alternative is to work on one job at the time with 100% effort and bringing it to completion quickly. Think of the reward, if you were able to implement one new $5 a day strategy each week. At the end of your first year, you would have around 50 sources generating an annual income of $91,250.

You may be lucky enough to generate that one great idea, like a ‘Rubik’s Cube’, that leads to a fortune. However, a viable alternative is to work on small achievable steps that can eventually lead to a big income.

Technorati Tags: Internet Marketing, leverage, make money, Niche Marketing

You visited a few times and I would appreciate your thoughts on this post, why not comment?

How to use Press Releases to promote your business

Once your business is up and running, you will want to take advantage of any possible cost and time effective method of promotion that you can find. While articles and social bookmarking are often called “free” ways of driving traffic to your site, they really have quite an extreme expense in terms of time taken. To judge these methods realistically you have to compare them with other forms of paid advertising, because you will need to pay an outsource worker to produce the work.

One other method of promoting your site is by submitting an online press release. This can be either a “free” method or a paid one, depending on where you submit your press release. If you are a quick writer, then you will definitely want to take advantage of the free press release services. Using a paid release is far more likely to drive substantial amounts of traffic to your site, but you have to compare every form of paid advertising, and decide where your advertising dollars are best spent.

The key to effectively using either the free or the paid press release services is to write a proper press release, and not just a promotion for your product. The press release sites are quite strict on the content that is submitted, so if you are just looking to promote a product, you will need to add some other kind of story to your release to get it accepted. The best way to learn what makes a good press release is to study the releases of other people. If you search the major press release sites, you will find plenty of releases which relate to your topic, or which are written in a similar style to the one you will need. Working news about an event into your release is one way of making sure that is qualifies as a genuine press release, and will help to attract interest.